soft net Armored Shield As Well Soft Economy Dents SAP's Armored Shield As Well P.J. Jakovljevic - November 9, 2001 Event Summary On October 18, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), the leading provider of business software solutions, announced mixed financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2001. In Q3 2001, revenues increased 16% over the same period last year from EUR 1.42 billion to EUR 1.85 billion (See Figure 1). However, net income in the quarter dropped 55% to EUR 37 million compared to EUR 83 million a
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soft net hard central nut. The soft flesh of the avocado is like the interfaces that surround an ERP system: graphical, user-interactive interfaces including native code and web servers dishing out web pages, and non-user interactive interfaces for connecting to peer systems through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and other Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) mechanisms. Want to connect to another system, or have a new visual look? Just modify the interfaces ' they're pretty malleable. In contrast, the
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soft net the source code and software of Catalog International AS in Denmark. Catalog-International AS has built a competence in Internet-based products for sales and indirect materials procurement. Through open interfaces to many ERP systems, Catalog has made it possible for its customers to get a quick start in opening a new sales channel and/or benefit from the cost savings more efficient indirect procurement routines can give. The integration of Catalog's expertise in the field of Internet-based e-procurement
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soft net Technologies’ AFT for Microsoft Dynamics AX Is Now TEC Certified for ERP for Fashion Industries I am pleased to announce that Sunrise Technologies’ Apparel & Footwear Template (AFT) for Microsoft Dynamics AX is now TEC Certified, and available for online evaluation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for fashion industries in TEC’s ERP Evaluation Center. Sunrise Technologies is a global ERP provider with headquarters in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and regional offices in
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soft net the apparel, footwear, and soft goods industries. The broad retail suite consists of near real-time Web-based applications that are designed to help manage business processes in the areas of merchandising, merchandise lifecycle management (MLM), planning, supply chain management (SCM), and warehouse management, as well as financial management and analytics. In other words, Jesta is a well-rounded, reasonably priced, and high-touch customer care alternative to Epicor Retail, SAP Retail, Oracle Retail, etc.
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soft net Summary In March, Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) announced the launch of its AppsAlive! preview site, which allows its ASPconnections.com portal to showcase live ASP business applications from multiple software vendors. AppsAlive!, a new initiative from Progress Software's ASPEN 2000 Program, helps Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) deploy their ASP applications on the Web and enables end-users to test-drive the applications at no charge. Available at www.ASPconnections.com, AppsAlive!
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soft net on Client/Server and Database Issues Event Summary To answer questions for a Technology Evaluation Center customer, a large utility in the northeastern United States, TEC interviewed Michael Daniels of PeopleSoft on how the PeopleSoft ERP product performs in the areas of client/server architecture and database management. Question: Is PeopleSoft designed as a fault tolerant environment? Exactly how is this accomplished? Is the failover manual or automatic? Mr. Daniels: PeopleSoft clients use a r
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soft net and Intelligence, Together at Last Marketing and Intelligence, Together at Last D. Geller - August 1, 2000 Event Summary Angara offers an ASP-based service for targeting web site content to unidentified visitors (see article, Getting Strangers to Take Your Candy ). The company buys online profile data from other websites. These are data that users agree to provide in exchange for receiving newsletters or other offers or are captured from clickstreams by online advertising networks such as
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soft net Soft-skills Simulation Makes a Hard Case for Sales Training Many companies find that traditional sales training methods have fallen short. The competitive levels of today's business environment demand new educational methods that can deliver advantage quickly and cost effectively. But how to cut through the clutter? Book learning, seminars, and lectures alone are too static! E-learning and web-based training are often irrelevant—or just plain boring. What to do?
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